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Monday, January 23, 2017

CLONE WARS: 2 book covers for 2 ''cli-fi'' novels with NYC under water on both covers. Depth by Lev AC Rosen and New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (and Odds Against Tomorrow by Nat Rich)

CLONE WARS: 2 book covers for 2 ''cli-fi'' novels with NYC under water on both covers.

If sea levels rise over the next century as much as scientists predict, how will New York City survive? Sci-fi legend Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel, New York 2140, explores that very question, presenting a future metropolis in which „Every street [has become] a canal, every skyscraper an island.“ In Robinson’s telling, 22nd-century New Yorkers don’t simply flee for drier climes; instead, they dig in and adapt, the way they always have. Vulture is pleased to exclusively present the novel’s official cover art, which presents a vision of Manhattan where many downtown landmarks are completely underwater. The book hits stores on March 21, 2017 (…)

New York 2140 soll 2017 erscheinen. Bis dahin werde ich das Buch wohl argwöhnisch im Auge behalten und sehen, ob sich mit neuen Informationen auch mehr eigene Ansätze zeigen, die mich davon überzeugen, dass Robinsons mehr ist als ein frecher Klon.A slightly different Clone War?Do you know this? You read a book that is the book for good (maybe not), writes an enthusiastic review and wish you that more people on this novel falls. And then stumbles your one day in any blog about a new termination, a cover for a book that are still in work and yet you have the feeling of this book already read once. This is exactly what happened to me.Not long ago i depth of Lev A.C. Roses are read. I have a book because of its mixed genre of science fiction and crime Noir, but also due to the basic settings much fun. In the novel, climate warming the water level rise so far that large land masses were flooded and Manhattan is not excluded. So were the floors of the skyscrapers to the 21TE floor flooded. But instead of the buildings and the instead of abandoning, arrange the people with which new events, live in the floors above the flood, build bridges between the old buildings and cruising with offered by the former street lines. The whole thing is very futuristic, with technologies available today do not yet exist, so not even the classical post-apocalyptic discards into feudal age.With all these impressions, which I have read in depth, i was but a little confused when I was on this new termination vulture.com for a novel by author Kim Stanley Robinson saw. The title: New York 2140I had to review of cover, the admittedly quite chic looks like, already a arges deja-vu. The scenery was in every detail straight from depth can be. Together with the book description it even worse: the same city, the same time that the same flooded setting by global warming. It may be that Robinson, in comparison to the roses yes a law known author in the sci-fi scene is completely different, the subject, and also no Mystery Noir with interfere, still come to me the parallel something to violently and a little too blatantly. Now I am curious to Robinsons novel on the one hand because i Rosen's setting simply very atmospheric, different and exciting place, on the other hand, my artistic soul with so many random(?) overlaps alarm. Are there perhaps other novels with this setting, my impression of the cloned book could mitigate a little?New York 2140 to 2017 appear. Until then I will the book probably suspicious in mind and see if new information is also more of their own approaches show that convince me that Robinsons is more than a saucy clone.